| 100% | WIT | 3 | "___ and wisdom are like the seven stars, seldom seen together": Thomas Fuller |
| 35% | REMADE | 6 | Like the movie A Star Is Born, in 1954, 1976, and 2018 |
| 31% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 30% | IRR | 3 | Like the verbs be and lay: abbr. |
| 30% | TODOLIST | 8 | Agenda ... or, together, what the seven starred clues and their answers constitute? |
| 29% | ROMAN | 5 | Like the figures for whom July and August are named |
| 29% | MIAMI | 5 | "___ Vice," 2006 action crime film that was an adaptation of the famous 1980s TV series starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas |
| 29% | TONGAN | 6 | Like the Bills' Star Lotulelei and the Titans' Deuce Lutui, originally |
| 29% | IRREG | 5 | Like the verbs "wear", "come", "kneel" and "to be", for short |
| 29% | CRINOIDS | 8 | Marine animals like the sea lily and feather star |
| 28% | ITGOESUPANDDOWN | 15 | How life is like the ocean, or a hint to entering the starred answers |
| 28% | SKY | 3 | Where the moon and stars are |
| 28% | FIRSTSTRING | 11 | Like the starting team, and a hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 28% | REMADE | 6 | Like “Suspiria” and “A Star Is Born,” in 2018 |
| 28% | SKY | 3 | Where clouds and the sun are seen |
| 28% | SKY | 3 | Where to see the moon and stars |
| 27% | OHIOBORN | 8 | Like seven of the 12 presidents between 1869 and 1923 |
| 27% | BRADLEY | 7 | The star of The Hangover and A Star Is Born |
| 27% | CELEBRITYPOKER | 14 | *Where stars can be seen fluffing and folding |
| 27% | CANOPENERS | 10 | "What are you in for?" and the like? |
| 27% | BUZZFEEDQUIZZES | 15 | "Which Disney Princess Are You?" and the like |
| 27% | TWOPARTY | 8 | Like the U.S. political system, and a hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 27% | EVEN | 4 | Like years in which the Olympics and World Cup are held |
| 27% | HITCHER | 7 | The —, 1986 film thriller starring Rutger Hauer and C Thomas Howell |
| 27% | MIST | 4 | The —, 2007 horror film starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden |
| 27% | GLAM | 4 | The world of high fashion is full of glitz and ___: abbr. |
| 27% | USA | 3 | Country whose flag is the Stars and Stripes: Abbr. |
| 27% | LEGO | 4 | Animated adventure comedy "The ___ Movie" in which characters are voiced by stars like Chris Pratt and Morgan Freeman |
| 27% | CROSSREFERENCES | 15 | Things to "see" in a dictionary, and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are? |
| 26% | STOCKHOLDERS | 12 | Share owners, and, broadly, what the starred answers all are |